Phixius

1st Mar 2009

Eagle Eye (2008)

Corrected entry: Many scenes (attacks by UAVs and the car chase through a junkyard) and even plot points (cyber-terrorism and artificial intelligence) are copiously similar to that of Transformers (2007) which also starred Shia LaBeouf and was also executive-produced by Steven Spielberg.

Correction: This movie also has scenes showing the sky, just like the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, starring Shia LaBeouf and directed by Steven Spielberg. But that's not trivia either.

Phixius

19th Jan 2009

Eagle Eye (2008)

Corrected entry: Although it moves the plot along, it makes no sense for ARIA to force Rachel to deliver a bomb to the Capitol building, since ARIA has the ability to control military aircraft and could just bomb the building herself.

Correction: Which would arouse a lot more suspicion than what would otherwise appear to have been a terrorist attack. ARIA has her reasons.

Phixius

28th Sep 2008

Eagle Eye (2008)

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie, Zoey destroys ARIA's robotic eye, causing her to shut down. Yet, later, we see ARIA's screen showing the countdown to when the bomb is triggered.

Brad

Correction: Destroying the "eye" disabled that robotic extension, but it did not completely shutdown ARIA's entire system.

Phixius

17th Oct 2008

Eagle Eye (2008)

Corrected entry: The Bomb (crystal-necklace) in the last scene would be triggered by frequency-response as soon as the trumpet hits the high F in the star spangled banner. The exact same 'high-F-note' has however by that time already been played by the trumpet (you can actually hear it) a few phrases earlier. Check any score of the anthem. The F sounds earlier on the word 'glare' (rockets red glare). So the bomb should already have been triggered.

Correction: The crystals are man-made, each made to react to a specific frequency. To avoid accidental detonation, the crystals would be made to react to only a sustained tone of a predetermined length. The earlier high-F was not held long enough to trigger the explosion.

Phixius

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